For The Way Things Go, Fischli and Weiss used household items, junkyard finds, balloons, chemical reactions, gasoline, tires, tea kettles, slides, fans, garbage bags... and so much more, in the most whimsical manners imaginable. Apparently in May 2003, Honda's advertising firm Wieden+Kennedy thought it was really cool too -- and after Fischli and Weiss repeatedly refused requests for use of The Way Things Go for a Honda commercial, the car company made an ad called Cog. While impressive as an ad *and* a Goldberg machine, it was a pretty blatant takeaway from Fischli and Weiss' film -- and Wieden+Kennedy eventually admitted to copying a sequence of weighted tires rolling uphill, costing Cog a Grand Prix prize at the 2004 Cannes Lions International Advertising Festival.
Here is four lovely minutes from The Way Things Go:

Here is Honda's copycat Cog -- one success after a reported 605 failures: